Car-record device.



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CAR RECURD DEVICE. A

(Application mea .rune s, 1901.5

(N0 Model.)

j GTBTMSS y 1 NITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

' JOSEPH R. OAVANAGH, JOHN B. IIANNAN, AND JOSEPH D. CLARKE, OF

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

OAR-RECORD DEVICE.

`SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 709,394, dated September 16, 1902.

Application led June 5. 1901.

To all whom, it may concern:

Beit known that we, JOSEPH R. CAVANAGH, JOHN B. HANNAN, and JOSEPH D. CLARKE, citizens Of the United States, residing at Iudianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements iu Car-Record Devices;V

and We do lhereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. i

This invention relates to that class of de` vices which are particularly utilized `in connection with systems for keeping a record of the movement and location of railway-cars, and has special reference to improved means for facilitating the keeping of a current as well as a past record of the ears.

Heretofore records of the movement and location of railway-cars have been largely kept in books, which are objectionable not only on i account of the expense involved in keeping `the same, but also by reason of the rapid ae cumulation thereof, besides the difficult-yin such, for instance, as recording subscriptions to magazines or periodicals and keeping stock or inventory of stores in commercial houses or manufacturing concerns.

In carrying out the above Objects the invention particularly contemplates individual record-blocks, whereby records covering a period of years may be readily kept withina comparatively-small space andqu-ickly and readily accessible, thus` enabling a single clerk to keep a' continuous record or history of a given number of cars or such other matter that may be recorded by the system elnployed by the present invention.

Another object is to effect an improvement in the block for holding the slip or card, so as Serial No. 63,310. (No model.)

to provide a maximum holding capaeity,while at the same time entirely obviating the displacement of cards or slips therefrom.

With these and many other objects in view, which will more readily appear as the nature of the invention is better understood,the same consists in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fullydescribed,illustrated,andclaimed.

The essential features of the invention are necessarily susceptible lo some moditication thereof; but the preferred embodiment of the improvement is shown in the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure l is, a detail in perspective of one form of the improved record-block illustratingthe number of slips or cards held in position thereon. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sec- `tional view thereof. Fig. 3 is a perspective View of another form of the record-block embodying the present invention.

Like numerals of reference designate cor responding parts in each of the views of drawings.

Each individual record-block essentially consists of a quadrilateral body, which is usually of a comparatively narrow oblong shape, so as to it within the subcompartments or divisions of the case designed to receive the same. The rectangular or oblong block is designed to be so constructed as to accommodate a number of current records in the form of removable record slips or cards, which are ruled and marked in a Way to provide for entering the necessary data for the purpose of indicating the movement and location of the particular car represented by the slip or card set apart for keeping such record, but the general form and useofsaid record slips or cards is substantially the same as setforth in our PatentiNo. 692,116, bearing date January 28, 1902.

Referring more particularlyY to the construction of each record-block, the body 14 thereof is formed in its upper side with alon- `gitudinal card-receiving recess Or pocket 16, extending substantially the full length ofthe block-body, to provide for holding a maximum number of record slips or cards within l the comparatively small area of the block-i Without departing from the spirit or scopef ICO body itself. The ends of the card-receiving pocket or recess 16 therefore reach very close to the ends of the block-body, and at such ends of the pocket or recess are formed the flat transverse terminal shoulders 17, Which serve to properly position the record slips or cards upon the block-body, so as to prevent longitudinal slipping or displacement thereof, and to assist in iirmly retaining the slips or cards in' position the block-body has arranged slightly in advance of the terminal shoulders 17 the upright holding-studs 18, which are spaced only a short distance from the adjacent shoulder 17 and are adapted to 'be engaged by the retaining-notches 19,

formed in the ends of the record slips 0r cards 15. With the notches 19 interlocked with the studs' 18` lateral displacement or movement ofthe slips or cardsfrom the blockbody is positively prevented. In conjunction with said holding-studs 18 there are associated the guard-flanges 20, projecting over the end portions of the recess or pocket 16 substantially flush With the thickened end portions of the block-body, so as to overhang the ends of the record slips or cards and pro- Vide a Very secure retaining means for said ends of the slips or cards. v

The studs 18 and the guard-anges 2O may be provided in Various Ways-such, for instance, as by devices in the forni of headed tacks, as suggested in Fig. 1 of the drawings, or by wires fitted to the thickened ends of the block-body and shaped to provide the elements described, as suggested by the modiication shown in Fig.,3 of the drawings.

The individual record-blocks are provided VLetters Patent, is-

1. In a record device of the class described,

`a record-block consisting of a body having a recess or pocket provided with terminal transverse shoulders, holding studs and guard-Hanges carried by the block, said studs having interlocking engagement with the cards or slips.

2. In a record device of the class described, a record-block consisting of a body having a recess or pocket provided with terminal transverse shoulders, holding-studs arranged slightly in advance of said terminal shoulders, guard-flanges overhanging the end portions of the recess or pocket, and the record cards or slips having notched ends.

In testimony `whereof we aiix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH R. CAVANAGH. JOHN B. HANNAN.

-- JOSEPH D. CLARKE.

W`itnesses:

E. R. BONNELL, GEO. H. MUELLER. 

